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Young No. Waldo Your friend. Miss
Wabash books somewhat stouter than when
,le appeared on my last visit 90 Chicago,
Ne ao,l.
N Breezy Yes, was saying 20 mamma
only .ast evening at the Baconian class, that
Can booked "a trIhe corn fed New York
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4ier. is dog in Louisville that chews
JOS conduct is all the more remarkable
'.N Ae fact that IT never went 90 Na,sar
''l-rse NoIi.t0wn Herald
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ltr mal who robs YOU on the road,
tgteayman is he;
ih grocer giving you light weight
q oHnclgh man must De-
TIA p.fa
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All who live must die, you know.
Aui loving hearts must sever.
But like the jew of Eugcu- Sue.
travel on forever
Mail and Express.
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JI-t of age is Jones sweetheart;
when lr asked The httle wit
ID .lrl lowed lim. She said pertly,
Ilsf ls ty little bit
It'd Bits
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Born So

harbr o. cusiomer-You are quite bald,
customer who isn't conversat ionally liz
'~lti Yes was born that way Epoch.
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Imperfect Walls
are also rendered
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STEAMSHIPS
OLD DOMINION STEAMSHIP COM
- pANY.
FOR NEW YORK.

Tickets can bee obtained ut a 81. Garbcr'-.
1910 Main street; Chesapeake and Ohio ana
Richmond and Petersburg ucpOl-. aud at com
pany's offices, 1901 Mdn street, and wharf.
Rockets.
frciphts forwarded and through bills Oi lad
ing issued tor points beyond New York.
Freight received daily until pm.
Manifest closed ON sailing days one hour be-
fore departure.
Passengers can leave New York Thursday
and ,atu day dt pm. Oy the Newport News
steamer and arrive at Richmond hy the Ihesa
peake and Ohio train the next day at b.l1 pm.
Passengers leaving Richmond On MON
DAIS.TU ESDAYs, ~ EDNESDAYN.IHUk RS
DAYS. and SATURDAYS by the Chesapeake
and Ohio railway (Via Newport Newslat s.iOa M.
and by Richmond and Petersburg railroad
lsame day. at 1888 AIM, win make connection
40 NORFOLK with steamer leaving those
days.
SAlLINGS THIS WEEK.
ROANOKE. Captain COUCH, FRIDAY, Oc-
tOUer DIST at O'Clock pm.
NYANOkE, Captain JENNEY, SUNDAY,
October 23gd. at O'Clock ann.
OLD DOMINION, Captain HULPHEHs.
TUESDAY. October. .lth, at o'clock pm.
GEORGE W. ALLEN Co., Agents.
no. 1901 Main street, and
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OHEsAPEAKE AND ONO RoUrE
SCHEDULE IL EFFECT SEPTEMBER
liTH. loST.


LEAVE RICHMOND.
$40 am For Newport News. Old Point Com
fort and Norfolk, daily except sun
day.
lll0 am Through and Local Mail TO al
points West. sleepers from Clifton
Forge 10 Louisville and ST. Louis
except Sunday.
400 pm For Newport News, Old Pointauc
Norfolk. Except sunday
400 pm Charlottesville accommodation
Except Sunday
900 pm For Louisville Cincinnati. Chicsso
S. Louis Memphis and New Dr.
leans Fast Express. with through
Pullmans Daily. Only route ran
ming Pullmans West from Rich
mOnd
SUNDAY EXCURSION
70 Newport News, Old Point and
Norfolk M $ am.
ARRIVE RICHMOND.
$50 ana Charlottesville accommodation
Except Sunday
I.O3 am From Norfolk Old Point and
Newport News, except Sunday.
$50 pm From Local points and the west
daily except Sunday
6.35 pm From Norfolk. Old Point and New
port News. daily
$40 pm From Louisville and Cincinnati
Fast Express daily.
Sunday excursion train fr0m Or
Point and Newport News arrives ir
Richmond 40 6.35 pm.
Depot seventeenth and Broad streets
ncket-oiiices 100 Main street and depot
H. vs.. FULLER.
General Passenger Ayenf
WAS, q. WlCKHAM, second Vice President
FRJ"HNOND FREDERllK0BrKl Az
POTOMAC.
lh GH ALl~RAlL FASr-thEIDH
p To AND FROM BALTIMORE.
PHILADELPHIA, sew YORK.,
AND EAS TERN AND
WESTERN CITIES
ONLY TWELVE HOURS BEINft.
RICHMOND AND BALTIMORE
IN EACH DIRECTION.
Couespoudingly quick tmetO other points
Through bills of ladeu Is.uid SO i0w rates.
g.. a. TAYLOR,
O74 General fr gnf Agent
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silence is golden, " said the sage
hai that was long ago,
TIC motto q the present age
Is, money talks, you know.
Boston Courier.
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Nos viii run through on saturday TO Nat
ural Bridge. stopping 40 all stations for tag,
arriving az Natural Bridge station at Has pm.
NO. accommodation leaves Natural Bridge
station ON Monday 40 2O5 am, stopping az all
stations for flag, arriving at Richmond at a.5
am. Slcepingc car attached 20 this train. and
Will be open for reception OF passengers 40 {
pm sunday
At Clifton Forge with Chesapeake and Ohio
ailway Tor the South. West. and Northwest
Az Ltnchburg With Norfolk and Western
rl'roac Tor an points South. Southeast, an,
oouthw 80, and Virginia Midland railway for
All points North and South.
40 Richmond with Associated Railways for
alt points I'm the south. and Richmond frcde-
rlcksburg and Potomac railroad for All points
North.
AZ Lexington with baltimore aud Ohio rail-
road. making close connections no Harper =
Ferry t0 and from pttshurg ana the ~ .st.
also 90 points North and East
sleeping car attached ir NIGHT ENlhf~S
for LYnDhlurE
cLtEPlNG CARS LlNCHBi N0 o. MEN
PHlH, NEW ORLEANS. and IlIrlt kDtk.
Trans marked daily except SUNDAY.
Tickets sold tO AT points. Offices. Nls Fist
Main street. lr0 Main. and at RchmOnt an b
Allegheny depot, Eighth and Canal streets.
JOHN a. MACMURDO,
tio3 GENT Passenger and Express Agent.
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RAILROADS.
sRRIyE RICHMOND.

5ao pm.-MAIL daily except sunday.
ssS am. ACCOMMODATION daily except
sunday.
80 am.-NIGHr EXPRESS daily tescer.
Monday.
SUNDAY ACCOMMODATION between
Richmond and scottsvilc leaves Richm, nd
SOU am arrives, returning. 1.l5 pm.
Express train connects at Iynchburs with
train Tor stations west OF Balcony Falls
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AND BROKERS
lll East MAfs STREET,
Estate Bank BmldIng)

Private wires connecting direct with
Washington. Baltimore. Philadelphia, end
New York Buy and sell stocks and bonds
for cash OF ON margin. Commission per
cent. Loans negotiated. Also trade in CON-
mission iu grain and cotton futures. New
York and Chicago. Correspondence 50.
licIted. Oct22u
, 1887-02-27

During q course of years, commencing
with tie Rus ian occupation of the u
try. before the cession OF the province to
the United States, and subsequent to that
time. men of our country found a lucra-
tive business Ia the sale of molasses n
sugar to the Alaska Indians. From these
two substances they make n drink which
they call hoochenoo, and 1t is just a lit
tie worse than the lowest grade of Hes
ter street whisky. In fact it Is almost
pure alcohol, slightly discolored. The
Indians manufacture it for their own
consumption, and for the use of their
friends, but it is rarely sold by them to
one another. They make a sort of a
mash from molasses and dirts@Eown
sugar. This they put int-( large cal
dron over a slow ,ife.
Some " them have considerable me-
ehafcal ingenuity. and they make a
crude sort of n still out Of tin. The
pieces are cut out for the worm, one In
dian holds them in place while another,
with u bar of solder and a hot iron fast
ems them together. They patch on piece
after piece, until they have completed n
rude sort Of a worm, and then their still
is ready. They understand the process
of condensation of the vapor in the
worm and know how to get the distilla-
ton out of it. Then they double and
triple distill this product. and in the end
have II liquor that you or l would nc
dare to drink, unless we wanted at once
to experience all the horrors of delirium
tremens. The stuff is simply terrific i'll
its power. When the process Of manu-
facture is completed they store it away
in bottles for use. The hoochenoo is
distilled only in the most inaccessible
parts of Alaska, as the sale of large
quantities of sugar or molasses in the
more thickly settled portions Of the coun
try is prohibited and Indians who are
known to possess quantities of either COM
modify are closely watched .-Lieut. II.
T. Monahan in Brooklyn Eagle.
, 1887-02-27

The natural history OF savage races cor
responds exactly with this natural history
of European folk lore. The Zulu will tell
you that the reason the hyrax has no tail
wherewith to drive away the flies is, that
on the day when tails were distributed
the hyrax, fearing it was going to rain,
begged the other animals to bring him his
tail to save himself the trouble of going.
SO that the proverb to this day addressed
to u Zulu who from laziness asks another
to do or fetch something for him is: THE
hyrax went without IA tail because he
sent for it," The Bushman win tell you
that the jackal's back is black because he
once carried the sun on his back when he
found that great luminary, hen a mortal
Of earth, sitting weary by the wayside.
And the Ait will tell you, in explanation
of the melancholy note of the loon, Of n
fisherman robbed by n companion of his
fish and at the same time of his tongue,
unable to respond to questions about his
sport, save by Il noise like the looms,
whose plaintive cry is still the voice Of
that hapless fisherman, trying in vain to
make himself understood. And just so
the Greek would have told you that the
nightingale was in reality Philomela, the
unhappy sister of Procne, bewuiling in
the form of n bird the wrong done to her
by Tereus, her brother-in-law, who, in
order to prevent her from informing her
sister, deprived her of her tongue. GEN
tleman's Magazine.
, 1887-02-27
N JOAQUIN MlLLgR,s cAeIN.
The Poet at Work Clad In tho Picturesque
Garb of n Forty-niner.

GARD OF n roftv-nihef.
One day / walked out to joaquin Mil
ler's cabin on the hills just outside the
city. Everything about the place looked
deserted and desolate, very different from
what it looked a year ago when ] first
visited ii. Then everything, both inside
and out, was neat and clean. n horse WAS
tethcred just outside the door and the
owner was inside hard at work, turning
out almost unreliable manuscript. Look
ing in at the door. before knocking, l saw
a strange sight for fashionable Washing
ton. Seated on a plain, unvarnished
chair. drawn up to a rough pine table
that cost probably 81, sat a man in the
picturesque garb of the gold miners of
California. He was writing rapidly with
u steel pen, and the floor around him was
scattered with finished pages. On the
plank wall above the papers was a single
picture and around it, tackled to the wall
with pins, We're scraps OF paper covered
with hyeroglyphics that | afterwards
found were notes.
Over in the corner of the room was a
bunk such as may be seen in the steerage
of ocean steamships. IL was covered
will, Il profusion of the richest skins and
furs. some of which were also hung about
the walls. The wild haired poet of the
Sierras received me pleasantly. and in an
swcr TO a question about his method OF
composition he said; II have no methodi
/ write when / feel inclined, and do not
give any thought to the subject before
commencing. But / must be alone, not
sven an animal must be in the room with
me, and | even turn my cat out of
doors"
After IA pleasant ordinary chat l left
the picturesque little cottage an the hill
and its queer occupant. must confess i
felt a little disappointed with my visit,
for in everything but dress had found
my host an average man. The next day.
however, | saw another phase of his curl
Gus character. Walking in the Smith
sonian grounds 1 heard behind me the
clatter of g~alloping hoofs, and turning l
saw approaching, riding wildly, the poet.
He had his sombrero in his hand, and his
long hair was floating in the breeze. He
seemed to be unconscious OF everything
around him, completely lost in the pleas
ure Of his gallop. This is the last time l
ever saw him in Washington. He left
o after and for II year has been travel
ing in Mexico and the southern states.
He is now in San Francisco where he
edits u magazine. but he is a creature Of
moods, and may bob up in Washington
any day. he has lived longer here than
anywhere else. -Washington Cor. De-
troit Free Press.
, 1887-02-27
TIE SATURDAY NIGHT MARKET.
A Procession of buyers. Who Are on tho
Lookout for BargAIns.

A Procession OF buyers. Who Are on tho
Lookout for Bargains-
On Saturday nights the pressure is ter
rible. About 8 O'Clock the procession of
buyers commences, composed entirely of
people who must la things cheap and
who will no buy unless allured by cheap
ness. On such occasions the objects on
the sidewalk are largely REINFORCED. The
shoemakers spread before their eyes large
assortments of arctic overshoes and of
those caoutchouc compounds which the
Boston girls unsteady term gums. These
are at divers rates.. some 35 cents, some
30, some 90. The dealer knows the fas-
cination which the large label 100 cents
has upon his customers. 1t seems to say
that the living price, the bed rock rate,
is 81, but, because times are hard, he
will throw of a cent and sacrifice him
self rather than not make a sale. This
convinces them, this piteous spectacle of
Abraham offering up his shoes at u sac
riiicial rate, and he has twenty customers
at 90 cents, whereas he might only have
had two at 81. Great is thy power. o
Humbugl
Side by side with the shoe tables are
other merchants, who make appeal to
the same passion for cheapness. At one
end will be an old white bearded man,
who, sweeping his hand over q collection
of tin whistles and imitation jet brooches
and hair combs, repeats necessarily in IL
monotonous voice, ANY toy or any
jewel on this table, o CENTS At an
other will be IN orangeman crying out
with the voice of a %stentor, 'sTen for 0
cents" Further on will be o huckster
of bananas, shrieking ''Ripe banannies,
the whole bunch for a quarter" Then
there will be magnificent displays by u
fishmonger, who by opening his window
establishes communication between the
fish within and the fish without. CLANS
appear to be the favorite dainty, and
these are displayed on plates and sold by
the plateful, and one can see feminine
customers counting to see which plate
has been favored by fortune. Beside the
clans there are piles Of Holsters, just
boiled and stenming, surrounded by u
perfect cloud Of av. riness. Then there
are small crabs, MOI very inviting, and
baskets Of oysters.
The groceries are in Gull blast, giving
away q chrome and a package of sugar
to every n who buys tea and coffee,
which is already for the buyer in paper
packages. In front of every grocery store
is a small stand where a young girl is
grating horse radish and selling it by the
teacup. Watched one whose hands were
blue with cold, but business was brisk
and she seemed happy, and continued
rubbing away upon the crater which must
have been about the temperature of a
block Of ice, for metals have the happy
power of distributing both heat and cold.
Then there were truck wagons from Flat
bush or Bushwick selling heads of cab
bage. and potatoes and onions. The va
rious dry goods stores ON the ''avenoo''
were crowded with customers and blaz-
ing with gas lights, and even electricity
lent its potent aid to charm the senses of
the customers. 1t was a sort of carnival,
the prevalent thought being. ''you work
ing people have your wages in your
pocket; come in and spend the last cent"
Brooklyn Eagle.
, 1887-02-27
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
THE TWO IsTHMUs PROJECTS.

The senate, so far as its action can do
80, has given an equal chance to the Nj
caragua ship canal and the Eads ship rail-
way projects for crossing the isthmus. 1t
has authorized the incorporation OF both
companies, and if the house indorses this
action and sufficient capital can be raised
from private sources, both enterprises will
probably be undertaken.
There seems to be little room Tor doubt
that the proposed canal is feasible. 1t
would be a much more hopeful enterprise
than the De Lesseps canal. and could be
carried through at enormously less ex-
pense.
The proposed ship railway OF Capt.
Eads has more elements of uncertainty,
although expert engineers of great capa-
bility lave pronounced it entirely practi-
cable. One point in its favor is that it
would be a shorter route from New York
to California than che Panama route by
some 1850 miles, and shorter than the
Nicaragua route by $50 miles.
The plan is to raise the ships by hy-
draulic lifts to the railroad, which will
consist Of several tracks like those in gem
eral use, SO that ordinary trains can also
be used on them. Tho car hauling the
ship will be drawn by as many locomo-
tives As may be necessary.
The Mexican has made
generous land grants to Capt. Eads' COM
psny, and has givcn it other valuable
nghp As the United States assumes
nc Obligations. pccunisry or otherwise,
for the success Of these undertaking
there seems to b. no good reason why
congress should not authorize the lncc.
poration of the companies and let them
proceed to business.
, 1887-02-27

+ss macon Telegraph wants a ~toboggan
slide, and tells how to make one that the
heat wont hurt. 1t selects n certain hill
in the city, and then says; buy enough
twelve inch plank planned on one side to
make, when stood ON edge, smooth side
in, a double line from the hilltop to the
bottom. The width of the space between
these two lines OF plank should be about
ten feet, and the ground smoothed with a
hoe. Over it spread pine straw six inches
deep. The straw can be hauled from the
woods in wagons. Nail two barrel slaves
under a plank of equal length, grease the
slaves and then get on. The rider will
find himself tobogganing at a terrific rate
of speed, and accidents will be almost i'm
possible New York Sun.
, 1887-02-27

Mr.. VIM. Westlake. stock raiser and
breeder of thoroughbred horses, living
near Avoca, Neb., was badly injured by
being thrown from a sulky. After using
numerous liniments and consulting phys
%icians, without being afforded any relief.
he obtained a bottle Of Chamberlain
Pain Balm from the druggist at Avoca,
which he began using and noticed a
change for the better after n few applica.
tons; in two weeks he entirely recovered
the use Of his arm. 1t is unequalled for
severe bruises aud sprains, rheumatism
and lame back. Sold by W. N. Hunt
, 1887-02-27

This" said Capt. Storms, taking up
n monstrous native drum Of unshapely
girth, produces a curious effect when
you hear the mufiied banging of it re-
echoing from village to village as the
signal for war. 1 hive come across
chiefs in nhe interior whose hobby it is
to have fancy drummers. But their
way of procuring them is essentially Afri-
can. They chop off the hands of their
slaves, and oblige the latter to beat the
drums with their mutilated stumps in
lien of drumsticks. Chicago Tribune.
, 1887-02-27

The rapid decay and destruction OF
building stones is u matter of common
experience. Mr.. 7. Eggleston has de-
scribed somewhat the causes leading to
them. He finds that many limestones
that are most liable to d~isintegrate,
either in the finished monument or yet
in the ledge, are mixtures of true lime
stone and dolomitic limestone, and the
crumbling is due to the more soluble
nature of the limestone, which is re-
moved by the percolating carbonated
waters, thus undermining the dolomitic
grains. Chicago Tribune.
, 1887-02-27
OaY four more working days are lief

OsLy four more working days are left
Oh ne preseE. session Of congress. A
uu Der of important measures, some Of
W.T. 4 have passed the senate, yet remain
&c acted upon by the house, while
enough work is still to be done on the
appropriation bills to consume all the time
thai ) left. There is but little prospect
.pf 10 passage Of the Pacific railroad bills,
the pieuro-pneumonia bill or the bill pro-
viding Tor the repeal of the homestead,
presumption, timber culture and desert
land laws.
, 1887-02-27

1t is said that the more rapid deterio-
ration of much of the iron of a late make
arises from the fact that it contains more
impurities than formerly. The common
iron of to-day is filed with Stag, and
looks coarse and fibrous when rusted OF
worn. Fifty years ago the iron made in
the United States was largely charcoal
iron, and was much purer and better thnn
the same grades made at the present day.
Boston Budget.
, 1887-02-27

Great excitement has been caused in
Paris, Tex, by the remarkable recovery
of j.. +. Corley, who was so helpless he
could not turn in bed. or raise his head;
everybody said he was dying Of consump-
ton. A trial bottle of DR.. Kings New
Medical Discovery was sent him. Finding
relief he bought a large bottle and a box
of DR.. Kings New Life Pills; by the time
he had taken two boxes Of pills and two
bottles Of the discovery. he was well and
had gained thirty-six pounds. Trial bot
ties Of this great discovery for consump-
ton free at W. N. Hunts.
, 1887-02-27

The climate OF Sitka. Alaska, is milder
than that of Brooklyn, the mean tenn
perature for the summer months being
about so degs., and the average tempera-
ture for the winter months about 40 degs.
1t is a mistake prevalent throughout the
United States that Alaska is an Arctic
climate. The population OF Alaska in
1885 was 8, 900 whites and 20, $50 natives.
Lieut.. II. T. Monahan in Brooklyn
EAGLE.
, 1887-02-27

SENATOR TELLER, of Colorado, has
)been over in New York, talking with the
newspaper men about the Cleveland ad-
ministration. Cleveland, he says, is Il
woful failure, and as for the Democrats,
they are hopelsssly split For Teller, the
ntern secretary oftNnterior, who
nights to give away public lands to
Hing corporations. TO speak thus bit.
of the Democrats. who never troub-
i'm with a prosecution, il ungrateful.
the least. The gentleman from
Eado shoald be calm.
, 1887-02-27

L this talk about war between France
Germany was accepted with much
nee everywhere until an enterprising
correspondent assumed to give the
bf campaign which Gen. Boulanger
adopted Everything, even to the
test detail. was deliberately set forth.
Now. there are people in the world who
refuse TO believe that Boulanger has taken
the correspondents into his confidence in
this matter. and the apprehension Of war
has diminished considerably in conse-
lauence.
, 1887-02-27

In EXPLAINING that no prisoners would
be released in Ireland in honor Of the
queens Jubilee, a member of the British
ministry said the wholesale pardons in
India WIRE in accordance with oriental
.,m The custom in Ireland is to
80 We and maltreat the people into crime,
aud then keep them in prison without
, 1887-02-27

DCN'T worry | The darkness of to-day
is but the mist which hides for u brief
period the light of to morrow. The oul-
tigsnon ola hopeful spirit will bring u
fulness Of health and strength to the
body, and the whole atmosphere OF living
vii end its soothing fragrance into other
hsa s and bodies-far more, indeed, than
80 re imagined.
, 1887-02-27

SINCE the election Bismarck does not
seem to be so much afraid Of France. The
bloody shirt has become a great inter
national political scarccrow, and John
Sherman is proud.
, 1887-02-27

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should
always be used for children teething. 1t
soothes the child, softens the gums, al
lays the pain. cures wind collie, and is the
best remedy for diarh@a. Twenty-Five
cents . bottle.
, 1887-02-27

HENRY GEORGE opened a speech at
Cincinnati Monday night with the de-
clamation: we want the earth Will
somebody please hand the globe over to
this crank and let him 60?
, 1887-02-27

Been north, l understand, " said Jones
10 Brown, who had gone to New Hamp-
shire TO sponge on some of his rich kin.
Yes, l was up among my relatives
"How did they treat your
"Oh. immensel Nothing was good
enough for me, and'-dropping his voice
THAT'S just what they gave me. =
Washington Critic. s.